[liberationtech] Tik Tok is a data collection service that is thinly veiled as a social network

[Yosem Companys]

Agreed. Thanks for sharing.

Of course, there are two big differences between the Chinese services and
their American counterparts:

   - In a communist system, business is an extension of government, whereas
   in the U.S. representative democratic system it is not; and,
   - As bullet point #1 alludes, China is undemocratic (to say the least),
   and the U.S. is a representative democracy.


On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 11:20 AM Marc Sunet <msunet at shellblade.net> wrote:

> The same can be said of American Big Tech and a large chunk of the surface
> Web though :)
>
> For a more detailed look at how the Chinese government embeds its
> surveillance in popular Chinese services, this analysis of WeChat from
> Citizenlab is pretty extensive:
>
> https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/wechat-surveillance-explained/
> On 6/27/20 10:33 AM, Yosem Companys wrote:
>
>
> https://www.boredpanda.com/tik-tok-reverse-engineered-data-information-collecting/
>
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